We thought we knew everything about Churchill and we didn't know everything!
And what we learn about him continues to reinforce the enigma represented by this incredible man.
The first of the qualities of Andrew Roberts' book is to renew the astonishment which is ours in front of such a fate.
It has sometimes become customary to reduce Churchill's life to his titanic 1940 confrontation with Hitler by obscuring the long journey that helped make him one of the greatest political adventurers of the century.
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There has also been a tendency to exaggerate certain traits of his personality, in particular the famous “black dog” or his propensity to drunkenness.
Two pictures that the biographer undermines, supporting documents, by showing that no depressive could have deployed the monstrous energy of a man who was rarely drunk, however alcoholic he was.
How do you become Churchill?
It is to this fundamental question that Roberts attempts to answer in this essay, the first chapters of which are the most fascinating.
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